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2005-08-03 Down Under

Ozzie Young Libs (!!!) Call for Terror 'Hit Squads'

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Posted by .com 2005-08-03 00:43|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Actually, the Australian Liberal Party is Howard's party, while the Labour Party is more akin to the lefties. But DAMN, his party never fails to amaze me.

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-08-03 01:46|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-08-03 01:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow!! Aussie Young Guns__have balls...will travel! You just know, "W" is smiling and 'Winking' over this one!

Posted by smn 2005-08-03 02:36|| 2005-08-03 02:36|| Front Page Top

#3 smn can you stop with the juvenile and moronic inneundos. You come across like you are 14 years old and copying the grownups, except you an adolescents idea of how grownups behave. If you have something to say, then say it. Otherwise STFU.

Posted by phil_b 2005-08-03 04:47|| 2005-08-03 04:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Nice to see that someone is trying to return to a more classical meaning of the word 'liberal'. I'm getting rather tired of the word being a synonym for dictator-worshiping, nanny-state socialism.

Posted by SteveS 2005-08-03 05:35|| 2005-08-03 05:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like a page out of Mossad and the Munich Olympics. Track 'em down, one by one.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2005-08-03 08:23|| 2005-08-03 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 damn phil pop a valium this morning

Posted by Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-08-03 08:56|| 2005-08-03 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Steve:
I'm pretty sure most of the world uses "Liberal" in the more classical sense and uses "Social Democrat" for the not-quite-communists. Only in North America (and maybe Britain) have the two been confused.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-08-03 09:44|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-08-03 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Phil's right - it's puerile.

Posted by Pappy 2005-08-03 10:36|| 2005-08-03 10:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Great sentiment but it'd never fly in this country. Too many whiners.

Posted by anon1 2005-08-03 11:16|| 2005-08-03 11:16|| Front Page Top

#10 From my days of ranting against Aris, I learned that the word "liberal" as a different meaning outside the U.S. Maybe that's why the U.S. liberals want to now call themselves "progressive".

One never knows, the phrase "Progressive Leftist" may catch on, after all. The major benefit in the term "Progressive Leftist" would be that there will never again be a confusion in terminology, anywhere in the world.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-03 13:01|| 2005-08-03 13:01|| Front Page Top

#11 The reason for the move from 'liberal' to 'progessive' is the same as the move from 'prune' to 'dried plum'.

Posted by Pappy 2005-08-03 14:32|| 2005-08-03 14:32|| Front Page Top

#12 As others have pointed out, the Oz Liberals are quite different from American libs. Even so, at least one card-carrying American liberal, CBS correspondent Bob Simon, has endorsed a similar approach on a global scale.
Simon's ideas go far beyond what the young Liberals in Oz have suggested, however. He has cited a crucial but often overlooked advantage of this "Gideon-Phoenix" approach: nobody even claims that it is legal.
How is this an advantage? It avoids changes in statutory law or Constitutional interpretation that could be exploited by oppressors in the future.
Incidentally, Bob Simon was captured by the Saddamites and held prisoner for several weeks during DS1. It is just possible that this might have colored his thinking on this.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-03 17:04|| 2005-08-03 17:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Yes, we understand these things.

When the fools did their Bali evil. They pissed off the "wrong lot of young lads"...

Posted by BigEd 2005-08-03 17:36|| 2005-08-03 17:36|| Front Page Top

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